silence Quotes

“I'll be as silent as the grave.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:speech silence

“Sometimes . . . real love is silent as well as blind.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

topic:love silence

“A lie by day, a lie by night, a lie in every touch and every look; a lie in every caress and every quarrel; a lie in every word and in every silence.”

― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

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“For they are the moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all...”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:experience silence

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

topic:death peace silence

“We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:hate silence

“A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

topic:self talking silence

“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.”

― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

topic:silence need

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